Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

Justworks is seeking an experienced engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering team, focused on maintaining, monitoring, and improving the reliability, availability, and performance of the critical systems that power Justworks. As a successful candidate, you have demonstrated the ability to apply SRE best-practices to large-scale, distributed applications. You have worked within a service-oriented architecture and know how to separate data and functionality as necessary. We work primarily in Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, but prior knowledge is not a requirement, and you should have a deep understanding that goes beyond the ability to use these tools.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Drive continuous improvement of system reliability and performance across all engineering teams.
• Design, implement, and maintain comprehensive monitoring and observability solutions.
• Respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
• Develop automation tools and scripts to streamline operations and reduce manual intervention.
• Add capabilities to our high-volume, fault-tolerant processing infrastructure.
• Lead projects to improve observability, resiliency, and performance of applications and infrastructure.
• Contribute to strategic planning and roadmap for Platform Engineering at Justworks
• Develop and maintain detailed documentation of systems, processes, and procedures.
• Promote best practices for system reliability, performance, and security across the organization.
• Promote engineering excellence through technical leadership, knowledge-sharing and mentorship.

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:

Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.

Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better.

Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.

Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking.

Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re